Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-04-23
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The Philharmonics meet this evening,
The Scottish rite degree will prevail
at Masonic hall tonight.
J.. N. Ways restaurant and lunch
counter is open to the public,
Rev. D. B. Nichols will conduct SER
vices in the Congregational church to.
morrow.
Joseph Cook 10 to close the college
course on the evening OF the 9th Of May |
with one OF his rare lectures.
Catfish, piokeEei, white and buffalo
fish are being taken by anglers in the
James river j n large numbers.
Pocket TASKS will be largely worn to.
the outside in the morning
and on the inside in the evening.
Yankton prohibitionits are preparing
to petition the county board for an cleo
tion in November on the local option
law.
The concert at the Congregational
church on Monday evening will be
worthy of a large audience. Admission
25 cents.
The steamer Terry put into this port,
from Bismarck, to-day, four days oah
from Pierre. The boat ID bound Cor
lower points.
Bad roads and spring work have kept
many farmers at home to-day, but the
merchants OF the CITY atlude to business
Ms being good.
LII, Tyler, superintendent, announces
that the Congregational Sabbath school
will be in full operation tomorrow ct
the usual hour.
Tho many young people who have
acted rather sleepy to-day are those who
attended the hop last night and
thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
Track layers who are putting down
heavy steel rails from Elk Point TO Yank-
ton on the Milwaukee road have nearly
reached Vermillion With the improve
ment.
DIR. j. B. VanVelsor, chairman OF the
city board OF health, authorized a re-
porter to-day to state that there is not
. single case OF scarlet fever or other
contagious disease in the city.
Miss NJ. J. Hesse, territorial superin.
sendent OF the foreign work of the w. y.
T. u, will speak in German at the Ger
man Reformed church, on Fifth street,
next Wednesday afternoon snd evening.
Temperance will be her topic.
O. l.. vanDyke, Yankton's steam
inundryman, has decided that Yankton
Is q better place for business than Sioux
Falls, and will remain here. He has re.
gently added new machinery to his laun.
dry and is putting an excellent gloss on
linen goods.
Next Tuesday Wednesday and Thurs
day the W. CT. U. for southeast Da'
kota will be in session in Ysnkton and
il is expected q permanent district or
eanlzation will be effected. On Tues
day lunch will be served to country
delegates.
The brick yard artesian we'll thi
afternoon is down four hundred feet
The first flow was struck yesterday ant
the water is gushing out OF the veil o.
che rate OF fifty GALLONS per minute. !
is expected that the fifteen hundred gal
Ion per minute aow will be reache
about one hundred and fifty feet farthe
down.
Several farmers we're interviewed TO
day on the result Of last nights freez
and the prevailing opinion seems to b
that no great harm was done. No on
has beer found who reports any frostin
Of young grain and the lawns and tree
about town seem to have survived I'll
GOODNESS. Water in barrels left on
doors was frozen nearly an eighth OF o
inch, and mud In the road was has
enough to bear the weight OF heay
teams.
Though last night was "a exec edinP
bad night, there Was q very large gathe
ing at the Methodist church and q 81
tire audience seemed to have come to I
good or to receive help. "Thon .
weighed in the balance and art four
wantlng,rw was the .ext considered by u
evangelist. The message found lod
ment In many hearts and numbers d
olsred That by Gods help they would n
be found wanting after that hour. =
OF these tsstifed to being saved. !
grand wolk moves forward and n
hearts are benny enlisted every mig